Re: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On 20 May 2005, Patrick McFarland suggested tentatively:
> As everyone knows, Joerg Schilling has a blog, and he often pushes his 
> pro-Solaris agenda, and flames the LKML about how Linux breaks cdrecord 
> (instead of just admitting cdrecord is broken) or how much more awesome 
> Solaris is compared to Linux.
> 
> Well, he just fired yet another salvo at the Linux community: 
> http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/04/value-marketing-and-freedom.html

His research sucks.

: Later, the LGPL has been created and parts of the GCC (libgcc) has
: been put under LGPL.

Wrong. It is trivial to check gcc/libgcc*c and observe that libgcc is
*not* LGPLed, but licensed under the GPL plus an exception permitting
unrestricted linkage to proprietary software. (Related exceptions are
used for the libstdc++ headers and the Ada runtime.)

Just before that, he said:

: This acceptance has not been present from the beginning. In the
: beginning, the whole GCC has been published under the GPL and thus could
: not be used to compile software that itself has not been published under
: the GPL. For this reason, there has been an excited discussion about the
: usability of GCC.

Note that in Joerg's worldview, a mistake equals conspiracy. This is a
classic kook's mindview. Jeff's right: the best thing we can do is to
just ignore him.

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